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by thechao 1y ago
I've got a co-op that won't net meter below a fixed cost that's close to my monthly. I just like the idea.
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by thechao 1y ago
I have a fence that gets absolutely blasted with High Grade Texas Sunlight. It shortens the fence’s effective life by years — this idea is brilliant . Now I just gotta price out 80 sq m of solar panels. EDIT: The fence gets at least 4 ho
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by thechao 1y ago
A lot of people really kick back on sortition. I think a good compromise is this: everyone votes like normal. We then take the top K candidates who got more than some fraction of the votes. (Say: greater than 1/9th of the total votes.)
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by thechao 1y ago
Convincing Mrs. thechao that we needed to drop 80000$ on a blown V8 to build a 4b 3 function calculator didn't workout, BTW.
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by thechao 1y ago
Beautiful! Thank you!
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by thechao 1y ago
Spur gear differentials are naturally adders (with carry!); so, traditionally they've only ever been used for analogue logic. They're overly complicated for digital logic: you need two spur gears to build a single gate (NAND) to p
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by thechao 1y ago
I've always wanted to build (distinct) mechanical computers out of the following kinds of elements: 1. Spur-gear differential; and, 2. Shishi-odoshi. Both of these are saturating mechanical devices that can be used to build NAND gates;
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by thechao 1y ago
Millions of rows in minutes sounds not ok, unless your tables have a large number of columns. A good rule is that SQLite's insertion performance should be at least 1% of sustained max write bandwidth of your disk; preferably 5%, or mor
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by thechao 1y ago
The MAGA ideologues can stay cultists longer than we can stay solvent? I'm in Texas, and I've got a neighbor, down the road, who was in custom home construction; he's out of business now. Why? He can't import lumber, r
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by thechao 1y ago
I see these sorts of statements from coders who, you know, aren't good programmers in the first place. Here's the secret that I that I think LLM's are uncovering: I think there's a lot of really shoddy coders out there
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by thechao 1y ago
https://oaktrust.library.tamu.edu/server/api/core/bitstreams...
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by thechao 1y ago
I’ve been in the get-out-the-vote space for 25 years, now. I’ve been politically active against gerrymandering nearly as long. My wife was tooth-and-nails in the redistricting fight (in Texas; Texas!) for ~10 years. Here’s my hands-on exper
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by thechao 1y ago
Austin? I thought my house was outrageously overpriced in 2014 when I bought it — compared to every other major city in Texas it was 2x/ft. It's tripled in "value" since then; new builds are quadruple. The rest of Texas
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by thechao 1y ago
I have poor color discrimination, but excellent flicker detection (?). This last skill was discovered by the senior devs when I was doing GPU driver debug, and “we” were looking for an extremely transient high-refresh rate tile clear issue.
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by thechao 2y ago
My PhD, and its chapters are junk. Just read Griewank; I don't have anything more to say than his monograph. (We could never generalize the AD operator to the hybrid mode, so it's useless for real workloads.)
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by thechao 2y ago
My PhD dissertation included a chapter (originally from a 2006 paper) on generic programming in CAS' on the algorithmic differentiable ring (and operator). By the 1990s, algorithmic differentiation was easily 30–40 years old. Griewank
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by thechao 2y ago
This is my gut reaction; but, then I've been looking at Barcelona — which has analogs in New Jersey and Chicago. In these three cities there used to be significant housing stock that could be affordably purchased by low income families
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by thechao 2y ago
When I was studying economics, my macro professor used to belabor the point that post-WW2 US socioeconomics was a highly unique (and special) time-and-place; and, it is a mistake to generalize economic theory from that time-and-place. So...
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by thechao 2y ago
Conservatives have started their own Universities. No one likes going to those schools, and they end up bankrupt, with students who are functionally uneducated.
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by thechao 2y ago
SDAM="severely deficient autobiographical memory". I've got SDAM, I guess? Although, I object to the characterization. I view other people as being neurotically obsessed with remembering their past and their hurts. If I want
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by thechao 2y ago
Do we even have a way of estimating the billions it will cost to resecuritize our infrastructure? What about the cost in lost soft power? The total knock on effect in loss to the economy for not subsidizing basic research, that led to the U
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by thechao 2y ago
Yeah. Without even looking at google, I bet there's a "mandown" project that formalizes markdown with man extensions. The irony of the poor state of affairs of the quality of documentation for mdoc & mandb are not lost on
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by thechao 2y ago
U.S. manufacturing was already near an all-time high. Bringing more manufacturing onshore will just get us more robots, not more jobs. There's a steel plant a few hours south of me, outside of Corpus, it runs at a few % of nominal capa
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by thechao 2y ago
There's a very vocal segment of Americans — I live among many of them — who very much believe this. It's not all Americans.
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by thechao 2y ago
The first chapter reads like the scientific equivalent of "hold my beer". I don't pretend to understand it, in the slightest, right now, but I love the style!
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by thechao 2y ago
It is unfair you're being downvoted by pointing out my anecdote. I argued the same point, too! Here's another point: the Greeks used to complain about their students using punctuation & spaces in their scrolls, because it&#x27
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by thechao 2y ago
I live in deeply red exurban Texas; and, yes, a lot of my neighbors are like this. I'd guess ... 30–40%? When my wife was working on redistricting & gerrymandering, a Danish group came over. They're the ones who pointed this
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by thechao 2y ago
This isn't narcissism — it's something that I can't quite put my finger on. It's like my neighbor who loathes all form of public assistance and actively votes against the ACA, etc.; but, when he found out his youngest wa
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by thechao 2y ago
I think each "line" is a stack expression, where one direction marks what value the stack pushes at that point, and the other direction (or index on the canvas? it's really unclear) marks the operation? So, maybe going down t
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by thechao 2y ago
Idiocracy was supposed to be funny , not terrifying .

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